Tax Administration: Multiple Collection Notices Sent to Individual Taxpayers
GGD-00-55
Published: Apr 14, 2000. Publicly Released: Apr 14, 2000.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) multiple collection notices, focusing on: (1) how many individual taxpayers were sent multiple notices to collect the same tax assessment, particularly after IRS received full payment of the assessment; and (2) IRS' reasons for sending collection notices after receiving full payment.
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Collection proceduresDebt collectionTax administrationTax nonpaymentTaxpayersTax assessmentsIndividual taxpayersData errorsSocial security numbersAutomatic data processing